Interview with debut steampunk author, Kristy Childs

“How to make Sleeping Beauty an active protagonist.”

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Episode 73 – Kristy Childs – Show Notes

• Writes seasonally – starts in November with Nanowrimo until April
• Light plot outline but generally pantsing
• Fuelled by green tea
• Themes are usually concepts to be included in the work – e.g. airship heist
• Start with character or concept first?
• Steampunk or gas lamp – genre definition
• Editing
• Changing British English into American English and difference in grammar rules
• Passive voice cut-out and strengthening word use
• Microsoft Word extra grammar features
• “I before e except after c” – exceptions
• Favourite genres to read – urban fantasy and YA – N.K. Jemisin, Tamora Pierce, Ben Aaronovitch, Warlock Holmes
• The Nightmare Detective inspired by The Maltese Falcon but set between the Wars and Sleeping Beauty retelling.
• Sleep disorders
• Current project is a Chinese fantasy for Nanowrimo. Inspired by ‘cultivation novels’ – Dragonball Z

“I want dinosaurs and I want explosions”

Links

• Kristy on Amazon
• Kristy on Twitter

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